{"id":15001,"date":"2012-01-24T06:42:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T11:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15001"},"modified":"2012-01-24T06:42:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T11:42:29","slug":"hamilton-says-no-to-sutil-trial-appearance-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/hamilton-says-no-to-sutil-trial-appearance-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton says no to Sutil trial appearance date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has told a Munich court he is not available to testify next week at friend Adrian Sutil&#8217;s assault trial.<\/p>\n<p>A court spokeswoman confirmed last week that it was &#8220;mandatory&#8221; the 2008 world champion appear as a witness on the opening day, 30 January.<\/p>\n<p>Former Force India driver Adrian Sutil is charged with injuring Lotus team executive Eric Lux during a private party in Shanghai last April to celebrate Hamilton&#8217;s grand prix victory.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC reports that Hamilton&#8217;s lawyer told the judge the 27-year-old Briton wants to cooperate but has commitments on 30 January, which is two days before McLaren plans to launch its 2012 car.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the trial could either be rescheduled or Hamilton &#8220;will be excused&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph insists Hamilton did not receive a &#8220;formal request&#8221; from the Munich court but that his lawyer contacted the judge following last week&#8217;s media reports.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren has confirmed the accuracy of the latest developments, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has told a Munich court he is not available to testify next week at friend Adrian Sutil&#8217;s assault trial. A court spokeswoman confirmed last week that it was &#8220;mandatory&#8221; the 2008 world champion appear as a witness on the opening day, 30 January. Former Force India driver Adrian Sutil is charged with injuring &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5311,5417,5262,5340,154,5284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15002,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions\/15002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}